Let's Play Mugen Souls & Mugen Souls Z

[Masamune]

@Walt the Dog Definitely get used to losing Mugen Field progress, it'll happen a lot before you're done. ? CH does like to reuse a lot of monsters, one of the ones I hate seeing show up is Vermilion... it doesn't matter what game that stupid suit of armor is in (Agarest, Mugen, Cross Edge, etc), he gives my trouble every time. ?

 

If you're ever having problems with status effects, you may want to look into the innate skills "Defense Coordinator", & "Hazard Map". That should make you immune to everything if I remember right (it'll lower your healing spells effect by 50% though, so having HP Restore maxed will help with that).

[Walt the Dog]

11 hours ago, Masamune said:

@Walt the Dog Definitely get used to losing Mugen Field progress, it'll happen a lot before you're done. CH does like to reuse a lot of monsters, one of the ones I hate seeing show up is Vermilion... it doesn't matter what game that stupid suit of armor is in (Agarest, Mugen, Cross Edge, etc), he gives my trouble every time.

 

If you're ever having problems with status effects, you may want to look into the innate skills "Defense Coordinator", & "Hazard Map". That should make you immune to everything if I remember right (it'll lower your healing spells effect by 50% though, so having HP Restore maxed will help with that).

Thanks for the tips on those skills. Not all that concerned about healing spells since I mainly use items for my healing.

 

In other news, I started grinding out the ninth Master Point in Uenus for some of the Tier 4 shampuru as noted in the Farming Guide (much earlier than I technically should, but it goes by quickly anyway). Not too horrid so far with some tunes on and if I can get this done early, that's one less grind to worry about in the grindfest that is the latter half of the plat. At the very least, it should get me to 20% Average Charm, if not 25% for the hidden jobs. Started at 15% and I'm at 17% with ~1500 in two of the types, ~1000 in another, ~800 in Master Sergeant, and ~400 in Time Bomb.

 

EDIT: Made it to 4984 Bargain, 3046 Chubs, 3758 Misfire, 1813 Master Sergeant, and 989 Time Bomb. Will likely do all but Time Bomb to 9999 before I stop for this run and just pay the master point since the enemy that actually drops Time Bomb is fairly rare in the encounters (and only drops 2 base at that) and since I'm using Bipolar to take care of everything easily, I mostly get Item Kills on those and the enemy that drops MSes (thankfully much more common) rather than the Peon Kills I get on everything else. Charm level gains are also dropping off very rapidly. Ego and Sadist have been going up pretty well at 22% each so far, but aside from that, everything else has been more or less static and it's dragging my overall charm behind at 18%. Up to 31k shampurus, though.

Edited July 22, 2019 by Walt the Dog

[Walt the Dog]

Switched to Hyper since it's just as efficient on the enemies that drop Misfire and Chubs and more effective on the enemies that drop Master Sergeant (far more Peon Kills instead of Item Kills). It guarantees Frenzy on the Bargain enemy, but that drops 4 base and it shows up in every battle, so between that and the fact that I'm far ahead with that one, it hardly factors in.

 

Here's what I have now

Master Sergeant: 3545

Time Bomb: 1629

Bargain: 7548

Chubs: 4896

Misfire: 6598

40723 Shampuru Total

19% Charm Level

Edited July 23, 2019 by Walt the Dog

[Walt the Dog]

Made another switch to Graceful since it's even more efficient, managing to end most battles in one turn while peon killing everything except for the Bargain enemies. Only battles that take more than one turn are ones with the Time Bomb enemies, and those are uncommon anyway.

 

Progress Report

Master Sergeant: 6609

Time Bomb: 2469

Bargain: 9999

Chubs: 7574

Misfire: 9999

53157 Shampurus Total

19% Charm Level

 

Will max out Master Sergeant and Chubs before I move on. Time Bomb isn't worth it when there's an enemy in the Mugen Field who drops 5 base and I can just do Out Bell spam to get those a lot more consistently if I understand correctly.

 

Also went from 28 to 38 hours on my file just grinding this out.

Edited July 23, 2019 by Walt the Dog

[Warpedsavior]

I recently got back into Mugen Souls and made some progress, though it's still a long journey until the end.

 

Shampuru Count: 132406

Charm Level: 41%

Playthroughs: Nearing the end of the 4th playthrough

[Walt the Dog]

Progress update

Decided to take a break from the grinding spot for now since I maxed out half the shampuru types there anyway. Ended up grinding about a thousand Block shampurus from the first enemy on Diit, which got my charm levels up enough to get to 20% charm. Will likely wait a bit to finish that grind so I can get the Sadist charm level up higher (she's the best one to do it with since she always peons the cannon enemies and she peons the golem most of the time), though it's quick compared to the ninth master point in Uenus.

 

Also cleared Metal World. Needed a new trophy since I hadn't earned one in days and the list is still ripe.

[Walt the Dog]

Got the true end.

 

Stats so far after my first run

 

Charm Level: 24%

Ego: 26%

Sadist: 26%

Bipolar: 23%

Ditz: 23%

Terse: 23%

Hyper: 23%

Graceful: 26%

Masochist: 23%

Shampurus: 60659

Playtime: 45:10:54

Enemy Kills: 6859

 

Now to do post-game and maybe even start on some 7 World Redux stuff if my charm levels post-doppelganger will allow me to.

 

[Walt the Dog]

Halfway through the doppelgangers now. Also got my second-to-last non-UR trophy from the game for getting all of the G-Castle skills. All I have left on that front is getting every continent to 300%, but I have some grinding left to do on a few of the money master points, so I'll just do that before I peon those.

 

EDIT: Got my first freeze. Didn't lose anything since I had just saved and then went to the XMB to check something when it froze.

Edited July 25, 2019 by Walt the Dog

[Walt the Dog]

Done the doppelgangers and the sun goddess. Sitting at 69979 shampurus with an overall charm level of 35% now.

[Walt the Dog]

Cleaned up the last few jobs that I had to unlock, did a bit of Seven World Redux grinding for mid-tier shampurus for a quick charm boost, and finally started my first NG+ run. Didn't get very far in it so far though since I went to sleep soon after. Seems I won't be getting any trophies from this game for a while.

Edited July 27, 2019 by Walt the Dog

[Masamune]

4 hours ago, Walt the Dog said:

Cleaned up the last few jobs that I had to unlock, did a bit of Seven World Redux grinding for mid-tier shampurus for a quick charm boost, and finally started my first NG+ run. Didn't get very far in it so far though since I went to sleep soon after. Seems I won't be getting any trophies from this game for a while.

Before I got the plat for it last year (around this time actually), I went over an entire month without a single trophy because of this game.

 

It's not like I wasn't playing during that month either, I'm sure I got some playtime in just about every day back then. ?

[Walt the Dog]

Made it up to right after the Vorgis battle in Chapter 8. Couldn't Peon Kill him since he frenzied right away even doing everything correctly (I assume he can't be peoned until my charm is much higher), but I did at least manage to kill him somehow from blasting him off, probably into a crystal that killed him upon breaking, so that's an extra 75 High Lasers.

[Warpedsavior]

An update!

I managed to get the 50% charm trophy, though 100% is so far away. I managed to 9999 a few shampurus at least. Well more playthroughs await!

 

Shampuru Count: 229803

Charm Level: 50%

Playthroughs: Almost finished with 6th playthrough

[Dragon-Archon]

13 hours ago, Warpedsavior said:

An update!

I managed to get the 50% charm trophy, though 100% is so far away. I managed to 9999 a few shampurus at least. Well more playthroughs await!

 

Shampuru Count: 229803

Charm Level: 50%

Playthroughs: Almost finished with 6th playthrough

Awesome, you're getting there  . Good luck with the remaining playthroughs.

[Warpedsavior]

Next update! Progress has slowed down a bit but the grind continues slowly. The current goal in mind is to get Dust Bunny and Sham-meow to 9999 by doing enough playthroughs for them. Maybe more playthroughs afterwards for the tier 15 Shampurus?

Shampuru Count: 295259

Charm Level: 55%

Playthroughs: 9th playthrough at the beginning of post game

[Walt the Dog]

Been doing a lot of stuff lately inside and outside of gaming, so haven't really had the time to get to this much. That said, I finally finished up my second run and I can move to my third in the next session.

 

Shampurus: 101170

Charm Level: 42%

[Walt the Dog]

Finally got back to this after doing the Super Nep RPG Asian plat. Grinding out Tier 12 shampurus from Galactic God Arena right now for a good charm boost in hopes that I may be able to maximize the High Laser gain from the Chapter 8 Vorgis battle going forward. If nothing else, I have to do this anyway and crystals in Seven World Redux center around average charm, so I'm not losing anything doing it now.

Edited October 12, 2019 by Walt the Dog

[Warpedsavior]

Slowly working on Mugen Souls here and there, my current progress:

 

Charm Level: 63%

Shampurus: 457347

Current Playthrough: Currently working through my 12th playthrough

 

Dust Bunny and Sham-meow inch closer to 9999, yet instead of going straight to the next playthrough after post game, I just decided to grind a bunch of other shampurus before each ng+. I’m probably going to do a bunch more ng+ after Dust Bunny and Sham-meow is maxed out solely for the tier 15 shampuru, instead of doing Overwhelming Apocalypse.

[Warpedsavior]

A bit more progress here, I got another trophy after doing a bit of boss returns. I have pretty much passed the halfway point of the grind judging by the number of shampurus.

 

Charm Level: 68%

Shampurus: 504464

Current Playthrough: End of 12th playthrough, still grinding

Trophies: 46/51

 

[DrHambone]

I love seeing all this progress! Maybe some day I'll re-visit Mugen Souls Z. I'm only two trophies away from the platinum (A Decent Challenge... and The Ultimate Undisputed Descends!).

[Warpedsavior]

An update, where instead of doing more and more playthroughs, I just simply grinded and grinded certain shampurus, mostly boss returns and some of the other 7 world redux battles, well my charm level got a substantial boost at least.

 

Charm Level: 80%

Shampurus: 604657

Current Playthrough: At the start of the postgame of the 13th playthrough

Trophies: 46/51

[Walt the Dog]

Finally went back to this. I'm at 48% Overall Charm now with 120k shampurus. Decided to go back and do some grinding on Renegades - Epilogue to get Admirals since a few of my charm levels are lagging behind from a lack of certain shampuru types from Galactic God Arena.

[Walt the Dog]

Reached 50% Charm.

 

At 122779 shampurus.

[Walt the Dog]

Reached 51% Charm with 128k shampurus.

 

I keep trying for the 10B damage trophy since the GameFAQs guide says it should be doable around 120k shampurus, but last time I got an actual try in (when I was at 49% charm with just over 120k), I got 4B damage even with Undisputed God Charge and ever since then, I haven't even been able to get in a real attempt between shit luck with getting a crowd of 9+ enemies in Arena of Strength and shit luck with getting hit with status effects that chop off 200 PP each so I can never really reach 999 PP to let off the ball, especially since the damn flowers hardly attack in the first place, so it takes forever to build up PP. At this rate, I'll probably just wait until I finally hit Level 9999 on Chou Chou for the 9999 trophy and then just make a Mad Scientist peon to give her Preparation so it goes at least somewhat faster.

[Walt the Dog]

At 52% Charm now with 133288 shampurus.

 

At 4960 Admirals now, so just under halfway through the Renegades - Epilogue part of the grind.

 

EDIT: Got another attempt at the 10B damage trophy in and I got 4.8B against a group of 10 enemies in Arena of Strength. Considering I now have 13k more shampurus than what green's GameFAQs guide says is necessary for that trophy and I have Undisputed God Charge equipped, either I'm missing something or the 120k figure isn't accurate.

Edited October 10, 2019 by Walt the Dog